Cue-tip.



E. LAMPREGHT.

CUE TIP.

APPLIGATION FILED 13120.6.1909.

4 Patented Sept 27,1910.

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ElVIIL LAMPRECHT, OF PHILADELFHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUE-TIP.

certain new and useful Improvements in' Cue-Tips, of which the following is a specificatlon.

My invention relates to improvements in cue tips, and more particularly to an im-' proved, removable tip which can be quickly removed from the cue and replaced by another whenever desired.

A further object is to provide an improved construction of removable one tip in combination with a cooperating part in the cue,

which enables a player to select any one that suits him, and then any tip that suits him, and place the two in locked relation to each other, and which also enables him, at any time during the course of the game, to change from one tip to another in order to make particular shots.

A further object is to provide an improved removable cue tip, which when in a position against the end of a cue, will be firmly held against rotary, as well. as longitudinal, movement, but which can be quickly removed when desired.

Nith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a fragmentary view in longitudinal section illustrating my improved tip secured to the end of a cue. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one form of my improved tip in course of construction. Fig. 3 is a view of the tip shown in Fig. 2, when the structure is completed. Figs. t and 5 are views similar to Figs. 2 and 3, but illustrating a slightly modified structure, and F ig. 6 is a perspective view of the sleeve or bushing 3.

1 represents a cue having a longitudinal 7 bore 2 at its smaller end, in which a metal sleeve or bushing 3 is forced into the bore and by friction, and for all practical purposes permanently secured, said sleeve or bushing being shorter than the bore, the outer end of the bushing lying flush with the end of the cue, while the inner end of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 6, 1909.

Patented gept. 2?, 1914 Serial no. 531,668.

the bushing is spaced an appreciable dis tance from the inner end of the bore.

My improved tip, which may of course be made of various materials, is preferably made in two parts, at and 5, cemented together, the outer part t being rounded and shaped in various ways, according to the trade, and the inner member 5, constituting a disk having a flat inner face to bear against the end of the cue. This disk 5 is made with a slot 6, the end walls of which at the inner face of the disk, are made with longitudinal recesses 7, to receive the outwardly bent ends 8 of my improved spring wire member 9.

The member 9 is composed of a single piece of spring wire, which is coiled midway between its ends as shown at 10, and the extreme ends of the wires are bent outward as shown at 8 so that when the approximately parallel members 11, ll of the spring wire are pressed toward each other, the ends of the wire may be inserted in slot (5, and when the members 11, 11 are released, they will spring apart, projecting the bent portions 8 into recesses '2". While in this posi tion a cylindrical shank 12, which may of course be of various materials as for eX- ample, metal, hard rubber, etc, is molded around the members 11, 11 inclosing them throughout a portion of their length, and said material constituting the shank will find its way into the sloth, as shown most clearly in Fig. 1, and prevent any possibility of the bent ends 8 escaping from recesses 7. On shank 12, a lug or key 13 is formed, which is adapted, when the shank is inserted in the sleeve or bushing 3, to enter a notch 14 in said sleeve or bushing, to prcvent any rotary movement of the tip with relation to the cue. In the structure hown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the coiled portion 10 is flattened, and when bent apart as shown in 3, two spring jaws are form-ed which are adapted to engage over the inner edge of the sleeve or bushing 3, to hold the tip against the cue. As shown in Figs. 4c and 5, the coils may be circular if desired, and I do not therefore, limit myself to any particular shape of such coils, nor to any particular manner of forming these spring jaws which engage over the inner end of the sleeve or bushing In operation, with the parts as shown in 1, to remove the tip, it is simply necesto exert sutticient pull on the tip to overcome the engagement of the jaws 10 against the inner end of sleeve or bushing 3 and pull said jaws through the sleeve, it being noted tl at longitudinally of jaws, or r transversely of the tip, these aws are 1' than the diameter of sleeve or bushing 3. so that when being drawn through the bushing they will be compres ed, and when free from the bushing will expand. ll hen new tip, or the same tip, is inserted in rotarv movement, which would interfere with he proper chalking of the cue, well the proper operation of the cue, and memaers or jaws 10 will hold the tip tight against the end of the cue, and maintain it in this position until a sutlicient pull is applied on the tip to overcome th spring action of said jaws.

liy means of my improvenents, when apied to cues, a great deal of the expense and cubic at pi sent incurred by the proprietors of pool and billiard halls will be overcome. @ne of the greatest sources of expense is that of replacing tips which have been br e 1 from the cues, and then another great source of trouble is to get a one which will just suit a player, and combine therewith a tip which will just suit the same player, and it frequently happens that in the course of game a player desires to use more than one style of tip. With my improvements all of these objections are overcome. A player may secure a one that suits him, may place in this cue a tip that suits him, and may change this tip whenever he desires for another, according to the play he desires to make. lVhen a tip becomes broken, there. is no expense whatever attached to the replacing of the same, except the cost of the tip itself, as there is no skilled labor required in this work.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts l without departing from niv indescribed vention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations fairly fall. within the spirit and scope of. the anpenoed claims.

I ving thus deecr bet my invention what 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A one tip comprising a ball engaging member, a spring wire coiled between its ends and having its ends secured to said ball engaging member, and a shank molded around the end portions or said wire, and forming a. cylinddcal portion to be forced into a cue.

2. A cue tip, comprising a ball engaging member having a slot therein, a spring wire coiled between its ends and secured at its ends in said slot, and said coiled portion of the wire flared apart, forming spring jaws adapted to engage over an internal shoulder in the bore of a one.

3. A cue tip comprising a ball engaging member having a slot therein, a spring wire coiled between its ends and bent out-ward at its ends and positioned at its ends in said slot, a shank molded around said spring wire and said coiled portion of said spring wire bent apart, forming spring aws adapted to engage behind an internal shoulder in the bore of a cue.

l. The combination with a one having a longitudinal bore in its end, and a sleeve or bushing fixed in said bore and terminating short of the inner end of the bore, of a tip, and spring jaws on said tip adapted to be moved through said sleeve or bushing and spring outward in engagement with the inner end of said sleeve or bushing.

5. The combination with a one having alongitudinal bore in its end and a sleeve or bushing fixed in said bore and terminating short of the inner end or" the bore, a tip adapted to be positioned against the end of the one, a shank on said tip adapted to be positioned in said sleeve, and means on said shank adapted to engage over the inner end of said sleeve.

6. The combination with a one having a longitudinal bore in its end and a sleeve or bushing fixed in said bore and terminatingshort of the inner end of the bore, of a tip adapted to be positioned against the end of the cue, a shank on said tip adapted to be positioned in the sleeve and spring jaws adapted to engage over the inner end of said sleeve or bushing.

T. The combination with a one having alongitudinal bore in its end and a sleeve or bushing fixed in said bore terminating at its inner nd short of the inner end of the bore and having a notch atits outer end, a tip adapted to be positioned against the end of the cue, a shank on said tip adapted to be positioned in said sleeve or bushing, a lug or key on said shank adapted to be positioned in the notch in the sleeve or bushing, and spring wirejaws fixed to said shank and adapted to engage over the inner end of said sleeve or bushing.

S. The combination with a one having a longitudinal bore in its end, and a sleeve or bushing fixed in said bore terminating at its inner end short of the inner end of the bore and having a notch at its outer end, of a tip comprising two members secured together, one member adapted to be positioned against the end of the one and having a slot therein, a spring wire coiled between its ends forming spring jaws, and bent out- Ward at its ends positioned in said slot, a shank cast on said tip inclosing a portion of said spring wires and projecting into the slot, a lug or key on said shank adapted to 10 enter the notch in the sleeve or bushing, and

said spring jaws adapted to engage over the inner end of the sleeve, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 5 two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL LAMPRECHT. Vitnesses:

BEATRICE HERMAN, R. H. KRENKEL. 

